Ling-Ling Nie joins the Atlanta university from Panasonic Corp. of North America, where she most recently served as chief compliance officer and assistant GC overseeing more than 25 subsidiaries and division companies.

In an unusual move for in-house lawyers, Will Barnette, associate general counsel at The Home Depot, last month argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in a high-stakes jurisdictional case involving the Class Action Fairness Act.

The top lawyer at the education technology company with its legal department based in Alpharetta talks with the Daily Report about everything from whom she uses for outside counsel to what she's been reading lately.

The "legally intensive" work behind Atlanta's professional soccer team that won its first league championship in just its second season has been going on since 2013, its general counsel, Mike Egan, said in an interview with Corporate Counsel.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlement with two Georgia companies over allegations of misrepresentation in a media campaign provides some important takeaways for the advertising and public relations firms businesses hire.

Now that intellectual property issues have entered the mainstream, the role of companies' IP counsel has becoming increasingly strategic, high-ranking in-house IP lawyers said during a panel discussion at the Minority In-House Counsel Association’s annual conference in Atlanta.

Georgia's attorney general candidates, Republican incumbent Chris Carr and Democrat Charlie Bailey, squared off in a public debate that included sometimes contentious discussions of Carr's experience, as well as the opioid and gang crises.

Sloane Perras, senior vice president and chief administrative and legal officer at fast food restaurant chain The Krystal Co., signed onto an amicus brief urging the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn the state Board of Bar Examiners’ denial of a military spouse’s request to practice law without having to pass the state's bar exam.

During a roundtable panel discussion at the International Association of Korean Lawyers conference last week in Atlanta, top in-house lawyers spoke about the importance—to both in-house attorneys and their outside counsel—of understanding how the business works.

Alpharetta-based Clearside Biomedical, which specializes in the development of treatments to restore and preserve vision for people with serious eye diseases, has named Leslie Zacks as general counsel and chief compliance officer.

Georgia spent $44,997,972 on special attorney generals in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2018, down from the $51,472,735 spent in the prior fiscal year, recently released Law Department figures show.

For more than a year, the state's three candidates for lieutenant governor have turned to various local and Washington, D.C.-based lawyers for campaign-related legal work, the Daily Report has learned.

The court unanimously remanded to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims the mandamus petitions that several veterans or their survivors filed two years ago, arguing that the average four-year delay in processing appeals of benefits denials was an unconstitutional violation of due process. The court ruled that the lower court applied the wrong standard in evaluating whether the lengthy delays were reasonable.

Over the past 18 months or so, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr has turned to a couple of high-powered political law firms for campaign-related legal work. In contrast, Democratic opponent Charlie Bailey has eschewed outside legal help, relying instead on his campaign general consultant and counsel, the Daily Report learned by examining publicly available campaign expenditure reports.

Erica McKinley succeeds former GC Lee Tyner, who resigned last December to “pursue other opportunities,” just 10 days after the NCAA ruled against the University of Mississippi over football recruiting violations.

Cline, the top lawyer at the agency charged with overseeing state routes, bridges and interstate highways throughout Georgia, talked with the Daily Report about his daily routines, which firms he uses for outside counsel and what he does when he's not in the office.

Gov. Nathan Deal delivered the oath of office to new Georgia Court of Appeals Judges E. Trenton “Trent” Brown III and Elizabeth Gobeil during a packed ceremony Tuesday morning in the State Capitol’s House Chamber.

For more than a year, the state's three remaining gubernatorial candidates have turned to various local and Washington, D.C.-based lawyers for campaign-related legal work, the Daily Report learned by examining publicly available campaign expenditure reports.

At a recent panel centered around the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2010 landmark settlement with Georgia over the care of its developmentally disabled citizens, mental health advocates said the state will likely miss the agreement's June 30 compliance deadline. But that doesn't mean that Georgia hasn't made big strides in integrating these individuals into their communities, the panelists explained.

Ruben Eric Washington faces two felony aggravated assault charges over the alleged attack. A criminal defense attorney who was in the courthouse, Michael Katz, told the Daily Report how he intervened to help stop the incident.

John Carlin, the former highest-ranking national security lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice and former FBI director Robert Mueller III’s chief of staff and senior counsel, is representing three Georgia voters in their federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and other state officials, who are represented by former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Friday that Jeremy Berry's “role will be backfilled over the next few months,” leading the Daily Report to take a look at those lawyers potentially in line for the gig.

Attempts to provide greater legal remedies to adult victims of childhood sexual abuse, however, were less successful, after the Senate gutted the Hidden Predator Act, which received unanimous support in the House. The law would have allowed adult plaintiffs to sue an organization if there was proof it concealed evidence of child sex abuse in certain circumstances. Advocates said they plan to reintroduce the measure during the next session.

The issue of alternative fee arrangements was among many topics that Delta’s Peter Carter and other top lawyers at Fortune 500 companies, including UPS, AIG and Union Pacific, discussed during a panel at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta last week.

A group of orthopedic and anesthesia providers in Newnan, Georgia, has agreed to pay $3.2 million to the United States to settle civil allegations that they engaged in an unlawful kickback scheme, federal prosecutors in Atlanta announced.

The University of North Georgia's top lawyer, Dahlonega-based Jenna Colvin, talks with the Daily Report about everything from whom she turns to for outside counsel to what she does when she's not in the office.

Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah did not comply with Medicare billing requirements for 39 out of 131 inpatient and outpatient claims reviewed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, according to an OIG report.

The Daily Report speaks with Heather McNay, IP lawyer at energy company Landis+Gyr, with its Americas headquarters in Alpharetta, about everything from her day-to-day routine to what she does when she’s not in the office.

ALM talked with Peter Swire, senior counsel at Alston & Bird and privacy and cybersecurity expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business, about some of the legal and data privacy issues surrounding the new, data-driven health care delivery systems. These include the proposed merger between CVS Health and Aetna Inc., as well as the health initiative that Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently announced for its employees.

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald resigned Wednesday as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention less than a day after a Politico report that she bought shares in a tobacco company after assuming office—an apparent conflict of interest for the head of the country’s public health agency.

Benevis dental management company and more than 130 of its affiliated Kool Smiles clinics in 17 states have agreed to pay $23.9 million plus interest to settle charges that they fraudulently billed Medicaid for medically unnecessary dental work performed on children.

Tim Phillips, general counsel at the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society Inc., discussed everything from the importance of pro bono work to mentoring during a roundtable discussion with young members of the State Bar of Georgia.

The Daily Report speaks with Katherine Dunn, the top lawyer at Alpharetta-based application software provider Aptean about everything from whom she turns to for outside counsel to what she does when she’s not in the office.

A Barnes & Thornburg partner in Atlanta who faced possible disbarment for fraudulently billing a corporate client tens of thousands of dollars instead will be suspended for two years, the Georgia Supreme Court says. John F. Meyers was a Seyfath Shaw labor and employment partner at the time of the professional conduct violations.

The top lawyer at Atlanta-based Focus Brands Inc., the franchisor of six well-known brands such as Auntie Anne’s and Moe's Southwest Grill, talks with ALM about everything from whom she uses for outside counsel to what she does when she's not in the office.

Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School is among 10 nationwide that the American Bar Association has publicly disciplined since August 2016 for violating its admissions rules by enrolling students it says are not likely to graduate and pass the bar. Per an Oct. 12 letter from the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the school must submit a report demonstrating compliance to the committee by Feb. 1 or appear before it at its meeting in late June.

The American Bar Association has publicly disciplined—with sanctions ranging from letters of noncompliance setting out remedial plans to censure to probation—10 law schools since August 2016 for enrolling students it says are unlikely to graduate and pass the bar.

While acknowledging the possible medical and financial benefits of a pill embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors if and when patients take their prescribed medication, health care and data privacy lawyers warned about consent and data security issues associated with the new technology.

A federal judge in Texas sentenced a woman with advanced metastatic cancer to 75 years in prison for Medicare fraud last month amid a crackdown on health care fraud by the government. Here's what we learned about the case.

As general counsel at the University of Florida, Jamie Keith may have altered and withheld requested public records and unlawfully used university funds to pay for outside legal counsel, an internal audit has found.

Atlanta police announced Tuesday afternoon that a Roswell man was in custody in connection with the shooting death of Trinh Huynh, who arrived as a child refugee from wartorn Vietnam, grew up in Georgia and dedicated herself to the Atlanta legal and immigrant community.

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